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Israel’s covenant
O Jerusalem! The Contested Future of the Jewish Covenant, by Marc H. Ellis...
Rare dialogue: Falwell's gesture
Jerry Falwell loves making grand gestures and startling statements....
The National Council of Churches: Is there life after 50? Dark shadows on an anniversary week
This month the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A....
Ecumenical negotiator
At the end of the year Joan Brown Campbell will conclude her nine-year tenure at the helm of the National Council of Churches....
Reconciled in the end
As the end of the millennium approaches, many Christians are preoccupied with questions that concern the end of the world....
Bow-tied liberal Protestant?
During the decades that I've been writing this column I've had two self-imposed rules: Never engage in literary feuds, since they are odious and boring; and never defend yourself, here or in a lett...
Royalty stoops: Matthew 25:31-46
Not long before the onset of the cancer that finally killed him, King Hussein of Jordan undertook a small mission....
Recovering the covenant
The Covenant Tradition in Politics (4 vols.), by Daniel J. Elazar
Vol. 1: Covenant and Polity in Biblical Israel
Vol. 2: Covenant and Commonwealth...
Religious truce: A funeral and a healing
I think they lived their whole 55 years together feeling rejected by their respective religions. They met at a free concert in Central Park during World War II....
The fullness of time: Reflections on the millennium: Living in God's time
As we approach the turning of the calendar to the year 2000, there is likely to be intense speculation among some Christian groups about the end times....
Globalization with a human face
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, by Thomas L. Friedman...
Divine subtraction
Recently I received a letter from the CEO of a not-for-profit corporation that is dear to my heart. After seven years of leadership, he said, he believed it was time for him to step down....
Say it with color
Crayola's recent announcement that it will change the name of its Indian red crayon to avoid misunderstandings about the color's origin (it comes from a reddish-brown pigment found in India) made m...
From wrath to grace: Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18; Psalm 90:1-12; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11; Matthew 25:14-30
A young seminarian could effectively caricature the preaching of his supervising pastor. "Repent!" he would holler at the top of his lungs....
Tribal conflict
There is a story in the Book of Genesis, rarely examined by modern readers, that is so pertinent to today's headlines that it should be required reading for any journalist reporting on the tribal c...
On the run
Endurance (1999), directed by Leslie WoodheadRun Lola Run (1998), directed by Tom Tykwer...
Patients, ethics and power
The Body of Compassion: Ethics, Medicine, and the Church, by Joel James Shuman...